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Announcing Splitvt 1.6.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Jan 19 04:00:29 1995
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:41:18 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Announcing Splitvt 1.6.1
Organization: University of California, Davis
Keywords: splitvt, screen, vt100, display, windows, terminal
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Announcing the newest version of splitvt!
What it is:
Splitvt is a program that splits any vt100 compatible
screen into two - an upper and lower window in which you can run
two programs at the same time. Splitvt differs from screen in
that while screen gives you multiple virtual screens, splitvt splits
your screen into two fully visible windows. You can even use
splitvt with screen to provide multiple split screens. This can
be very handy when running over a modem, or for developing
client-server applications.
What can I use it for?
Well, at this time, I am aware of several ways in which
people are using splitvt. Some people like to use it over the modem
to allow them more than one window at a time, others like to use it
in xterms because they prefer having everything on the screen at once,
and some people are using it in conjunction with the -rcfile option
to automate system administration tasks.
If you are using splitvt in a new and unusual way,
I'd like to hear about it!
Direct all comments to slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu
Where can I get it?
Splitvt is available for anonymous ftp from
dewdrop.water.ca.gov in the /pub/Linux directory. You can also get
it from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming for now, hopefully to
be moved to /pub/Linux/utils/terminal. The file is splitvt-1.6.1.tgz
and it is in tarred and gzipped format.
What's new?
Lots of stuff. :)
Here is the list of things from the CHANGES file:
Version 1.6.1
Added simple cut-paste support
Middle button in xterm performs paste
Fixed a compilation bug in terminal.c
Fixed cut and paste in xterm
Fixed core dump in terminal.c
Changed +/- to grow/shrink current window
Can move separator bar more than one line
Fixed display of ansi color
Added a help screen (^O-h)
Added simple if statements in startup file
Added env variable=value in startup file
Fixed command line -upper/-lower parsing
Ported to OSF/1 3.0
What's planned?
Gee, lots of stuff. I looked at implementing splitvt for
other terminal types besides vt100 compatible, and there are no other
common terminal types that support scrolling regions. Terminal types
with hardware delete-line might be able to support splitvt, but I
won't worry about this unless quite a few people want it. I want to
beef up the startup file syntax so that you can specify the format
of the "status bar", or window divider, and I plan to rewrite the
startup file parser so that it allows you to use more flexible and
powerful startup scripts. I am also toying with the idea of cut-paste
"screen" style, and a window history that you can scroll back through.
I have cut-paste partially working.
Other things in the old brain-stew are cleaning up dead windows,
dynamically starting windows, etc...
If you have any wishes, just let me know at slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu,
and I'll try to include them in future releases of splitvt. I'll try to
avoid feeping creaturism, but a few bells and whistles would be nice. :)
Bugs? What bugs?
Well, there are a couple of bugs. See the man page for
a list of the ones I can reproduce. A few other bugs have been
reported, but I can't reproduce them (i.e. running in an odd
system software setup). If you run into these, let me know, and
I'll try to help out as much as possible.
Will it run on my system?
Well, if you run a UNIX that has pseudo-tty support,
chances are that splitvt will work on your system. Splitvt has
been ported to all of the "standard" unices, and also to a few
oddball unices, such as AIX, NewsOS, MP-RAS, and NeXT.
Is NewsOS really a UNIX OS?
Well, that about wraps it up. I hope you enjoy this software,
originally conceived by Dave Ljung and created by yours truly.
Enjoy!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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